Wu Wenguang: Investigating My Father
Investigating My Father
Directed and edited by Wu Wenguang, 80 mins, 2016.
“This film was made by a son to investigate his father’s history and how he changed from a man of the "old society" to a man of the "new society" after 1949. I am the ‘son,’ and so the film is about our relationship.” -- Wu Wenguang
Wu Wenguang, was born in south-western China’s Yunnan province in 1956. After graduating from high school in 1974, Wu was sent to the countryside, where he worked as a farmer for four year. Between 1978 and 1982, he studied Chinese Literature in Yunnan University. He moved to Beijing in 1988 to be an independent documentary filmmaker, freelance writer and creator and producer of dance/theater. His films include Bumming in Beijing: the Last Dreamers (1990), 1966, My Time in the Red Guards (1993), At Home in the World (1995), Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999), Dance with Farm Workers (2001), You are Called Outlander (2003), Fuck Cinema (2005), Bare Your Staff (2010), Treating(2010), and Investigating My Father (2016). Wu has filmed his “Autobiography series” and has completed 3 films so far.
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